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Diane Morgan
Lost Aberdeen

Featuring archive photographs, many of which are published for the first time, Lost Aberdeen paints a fascinating portrait of one of Scotland's greatest cities. Diane Morgan charts the disappearance of th…

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Diane Morgan
Lost Aberdeen: The Freedom Lands

This, the final volume in Diane Morgan's acclaimed Lost Aberdeen trilogy, is a fascinating, ground-breaking account of the west side of the city. Featuring period photographs, illustrations and maps, Lost…

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Diane Morgan
Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts

In Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirts, Diane Morgan embarks on a fascinating and highly readable journey into the environmental and architectural heritage of those familiar parts of Aberdeen that began life on …

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Norman S. Newton
Lost Inverness

Norman S. Newton scours historical and contemporary works to trace the lost architectural history of the capital of the Highlands, following the city's history from prehistory, through the Dark Ages, the …

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Andres N. Ordorica
Holy Boys

The new poetry collection from Andrés N. Ordorica (picked as an Observer Best Debut Novelists for 2024), Holy Boys seeks to address the echoes of adolescence and the pains of living a life in the shadows …

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Agnes Owens
A Working Mother

Agnes Owen's sharp wit, humour and lean prose is beautifully displayed in this tragi-comedy. Betty's husband Adam broods and seeks solace at the bottom of a glass, while she flirts with their best friend …

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Agnes Owens
For the Love of Willie

Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital, known as the Duchess, to read the manuscript. Frankly the duchess would prefer a Mills …

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Agnes Owens
Gentlemen of the West

Gentlemen of the West isAgnesOwens' first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the narrator, a 22-year-old bricklayer whose situation and lifestyle will be immediately ident…

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Agnes Owens
Like Birds in the Wilderness

'Like Birds in the Wilderness', a portrait of brickie Mac. He's a straightforward guy with a talent for laying bricks and a liking for the drink who decides to head to the oil-rich north to seek his fortu…

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Marian Pallister
Argyll Curiosities

In this book Marian Pallister has looked extensively into places, people and events which are curiously layered, and has created a book that is overflowing with enchanting 'curiosities' and local historie…

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Marian Pallister
Lost Argyll

In this fascinating yet poignant study, Marian Pallister introduces the many varied aspects of lost Argyll, showing how ancient and even relatively modern landscapes have changed inexorably, often with li…

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Frederick Rea
A School in South Uist

In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorlan…

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Douglas Skelton
The Other Side of Fear

Someone has big plans for Stoirm, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want. Investigative journalist Rebecca Connolly returns to the Scottish island to find out who is terrorising the locals, plu…

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Jane Smith
Wild Island

In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds a…

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Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Edinburgh, 1930, and the world is on the brink of change. Leading the charge is the free-spirited Miss Jean Brodie, but while Miss Brodie manipulates and charms 'her girls' - known as the Brodie Set - wit…

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Alessandra Thom
Summer Hours

A short, vivid, wry debut novel from a fresh literary voice who has just won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust. Set in the haze of an unusually hot Edinburgh summer, Summer Hours is a story…

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Joanna Thomas
Lost Cornwall

Cornwall's spectacular shoreline, with its brutal cliffs, desolate moors and pre-historic coastal settlements, has long held a source of fascination for visitors. This book is an exploration of some of th…

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Iain Thomson
Isolation Shepherd

Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery, Iain R. Thomson's classic book provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons an…

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Steven Veerapen
Witches

Witches have been culturally relevant for centuries, but where did our perception of witches - good and bad - come from? Steven Veerapen traces witches, witchcraft, and witch-hunters from the explosion of…

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William J. Watson
The Celtic Placenames of Scotland

Widely hailed by enthusiasts as one of the most detailed reference books on the subject of Celtic Place-names, this toponymical study provides background and derivation for the length and breadth of the c…

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